ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,420, issued on July 22, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Radiator and joint" was invented by George Wilson Fitzgerald (Northampton, Great Britain), Anthony Roberts (Northampton, Great Britain), Martin Richardson (Northampton, Great Britain), Thomas Snelling (Northampton, Great Britain), Balaji Hosadurgam Ravindranath (Mysore, India) and Leigh David (Northampton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiator joint is provided that include a first component, a second component and a weld seam, that together define a bird beak joint. The first component has generally circular cross-sectional pr...